Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Precaution is better than cure.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Forgotten is forgiven.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

I have little bones.

I believe time wounds all heels.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The first wealth is health.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

I don’t exercise.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

How young can you die of old age?

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.